Designers unveiled a bold new look for the $3.5 billion, Bruce Ratner-commissioned Brooklyn “skyline” yesterday – showing more detail of the 16 monolithic brick, glass and steel highrises that would collectively tower over the borough as “Atlantic Yards.” “What we’re trying to do is create a skyline,” said the project’s architect, Frank Gehry. “Here we’re trying to say, there’s a variety of materials and scales.” The latest and most detailed look at the largest development in the borough’s history shows a slightly altered and much more detailed version of the 22-acre project and its centerpiece – a 620-foot edifice dubbed “Ms. Brooklyn” at the corner of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues.

A lot of the facade’s steel has been replaced with glass on the architecturally unique tower presented by Gehry yesterday. But it still remains a twisting, curving gateway to the project and the mid-block 18,000-seat basketball arena to which Ratner hopes to move his New Jersey Nets.

Landscape architect Laurie Olin also revealed plazas, a pond and a garden, peppered within the residential east end of the project in Prospect Heights.

But some critics charged the design – which Gehry said is about “trying to emulate [Brooklyn] without copying it” – is a look and size completely alien to the borough.

“It’s still way too big, and does not change the fact of 16 skyscrapers slammed on top of and next to lowrise, historic neighborhoods,” said Daniel Goldstein, spokesman for the anti-arena group Develop-Don’t Destroy Brooklyn.

As The Post reported last March, Atlantic Yards has been reduced by 475,000 square feet – to a total of nearly 8.7 million square feet – ostensibly in response to opponents.

“You make it tremendously larger, and then you shave off a few percentage points and say, ‘See, we downsized,’ ” said Patti Hagan, an ardent Atlantic Yards foe. “That is just fiddling with people’s minds.” Very